Swype Android Beta Adds Dragon Speech, Handwriting Recognition

Nuance's Swype app offers a new winning combination for fast typing on Android devices: gestures and Dragon speech recognition, with handwriting recognition thrown in for good measure.

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Handwriting recognition is Swype's other big new input capability. Unlike gesture typing and speech recognition, handwriting recognition is turned off by default. You have to turn it on in the settings.

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